Graduate and Postgraduate Theses

Our students work on Research Projects conducting their Theses.
We have a number of Pregraduate, Postgraduate
and PhD students working in our team.

1. Scientific Reports

Gavrielatos Ch. et al. 2013. The Ochi Kastanologos (Castanea foresthill): His Past, Present and Future. Full Text (in Greek)

2. Pre-graduate theses

Aspasia D. Klouvatou. 2003. Fluctuations of photosynthetic traits of three grapevine cultivars during leaf development. Full Text (in Greek)
Evagelos Karvonis. 2004. Dynamics of boron uptake and remobilization in olive (Olea europaea L.). Full Text (in Greek)
Georgia Chr.Tooulakou. 2004. Anatomical and morphological alterations of leaf hairs of Quercus ilex caused by phytophagus enemies. Full Text (in Greek)
Kornilios Vekkos. 2005. Photosynthetic characteristics of Prunus amygdalus (heterobaric) and Ligustrum japonicum (homobaric) leaves during development. Full Text (in Greek)
Varvara Psaroudi. 2006. Acclimation of Solanum melongena to low boron supply. Full Text (in Greek)
Manolis Kontoudakis. 2007. Factors of secondary metabolism related to the acclimation of olive (Olea europaea L.) in low boron supply conditions. Full Text (in Greek)
Christina Korgiopoulou. 2007. Effect of leaf architecture on the yield of chlorophyll extraction by DMSO. Full Text (in Greek)
Artemis Lazaridou. 2007. Photoprotection by leaf anthocyanins in Berberis cretica. Full Text (in Greek)
Christos Papachristou. 2008. Boron concentration in leaves of different olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars. Full Text (in Greek)
Chrisaugi Reppa. 2009. Distribution of heterobaric leaves in the flora of a typical mediterranean-type region. Full Text (in Greek)
Akilas Fragelakis. 2009. Phenolic compounds and boric acid in the cell wall of olive (Olea europaea L.) leaves: molecular linkage or just co-occurrence? Full Text (in Greek)
Ioannis Spanorigas. 2011. Effect of anthocyanin accumulation on photochemical characteristics of Pelagronium sp. leaves. Full Text (in Greek)
Antonia Papanastasiou. 2013. Study of the optical properties of heterobaric leaves of monocot and dicot plant species under oblique illumination. Full Text (in Greek)
Maria Liati. 2013. Effec of oblique illumination on the photosynthetic rate of heterobaric leaves of monocot and dicot plant species. Full Text (in Greek)
Chariklia Kyriakidou. 2014. Estimation of photoprotective potential of the anthocyanins of Berberis cretica through chlorophyll fluorescence in vivo. Full Text (in Greek)
Nikolaos Papafotis. 2014. Variation of photosystem II photochemical parameters in relation to the leave's orientation and position in the canopy. Full Text (in Greek)
Evita Mavrogianni. 2015. Effects of obligue illumination in photosynthesis in relation to leaf anatomy. A chlorophyll fluorescence study. Full Text (in Greek)
Evagelia Kleftospirou. 2015. Examination of physiological and biochemical indices of five barley genotypes under drought conditions. Full Text (in Greek)
Nikoleta Darra. 2015. Correlation between anatomy and photosynthetic rate under obligue illumination. Full Text (in Greek)

3. MSc Theses

Sotiria Stavrianakou. 2000. Factors affecting the accumulation of secondary metabolites in Dittrichia viscosa leaves. Full Text (in Greek)
Vassiliki Stavroulaki. 2001. On the occurrence of phenolic compounds on the leaf epicuticular layer of representative plant species. Full Text (in Greek)
Vassiliki Lourida. 2004. Possible physiological roles of lithocysts in representative plant species. Full Text (in Greek)
Aspasia D. Klouvatou. 2006. Investigation of the physiological role of phenolic compounds which accumulate in olive (Olea europaea L.) under low boron supply. Full Text (in Greek)
Georgia Chr.Tooulakou. 2006. Anatomical and physiological characteristics of crystal-forming idioblasts in mesophyll cells of Amaranthus sp. Full Text (in Greek)
Vassilia Tsagaraki. 2007. Use of boronic acids to study of effects of boron deficiency in olive (Olea europaea L.). Full Text (in Greek)
Varvara Psaroudi. 2008. Optical properties and photosynthetic pefrormance of homobaric and heterobaric leaves: the effect of the angle of incident photosynthetically active radiation. Full Text (in Greek)
Panagiota Bresta. 2009. Effect of water stress on physiological and morphological parameters of leaves in tolerant and intolerant wheat varieties. Full Text (in Greek)
Konstantinos Kesoglou. 2010. Interactions between boron and phenolic compounds in cell walls. Full Text (in Greek)
Gerasimia Tsasi. 2010. Examination of the presence of ortho-di-phenolic compounds in cell walls and their participation in diester complexes with boric acid. Full Text (in Greek)
Christina Korgiopoulou. 2010. Effects of shading in physiological and anatomical parameters of leaves of male and female pistacio nut (Pistacia vera L.) trees. Full Text (in Greek)
Chrysaugi Reppa. 2012. Alarm Photosynthesis: Utilization of lithocyst carbon reserves in photosynthetic assimilation under stress conditions. Full Text (in Greek)
Emmanouela Garofalaki. 2011. Effect of boron limitation in certain cell wall metabolites of olive (Olea europaea) leaves. Full Text (in Greek)
Christos Sakarikos. 2011. Interactions between parameters of heterobaric leaves of plant species of the Akarnanian Mountain flora. Full Text (in Greek)

4. PhD Theses

Vally Liakoura. 2000. Leaf protective potential of characteristic mediterranean plant species against ultraviolet-B radiation (Supervisor: Professor Y. Manetas, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department of Biology, University o Patras, conducted in collaboration with G. Karabourniotis group). Full Text (in Greek)
Georgios Liakopoulos. 2003. Anatomical and physiological alterations in olive (Olea europaea L.) leaves under boron deficiency. Full Text (in Greek)
Sotiria Stavrianakou. 2009.The importance of epicuticular secondary metabolites as plant protectants and the capacity of their biotechnological utilization. Full Text (in Greek)
Sally Alloh Sumbele. 2010. Photosynthetic characteristics of representative plant species of the mediterranean ecosystem. Full Text (in English) / Full Text (in Greek)
Georgia Tooulakou. 2013. Effects of carbon starvation in calcium oxalate crystals and the metabolic profile of Amaranthus sp. (amaranth): a metabolomic analysis. Full Text (in Greek)
Panagiota Bresta. 2013. Structure-function relationships of the acclimation of different barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes to prolonged drought stress. Full Text (in Greek)
Andreas Giannopoulos. 2014. Structure and function of idioblasts forming calcium oxalate and calcium carbonate depositions and their role in alarm photosynthesis. Full Text (in Greek)
Vassiliki Stavroulaki. Interactions between nitrogen limitation and water stress in different barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes. Full Text (in Greek)